DAVID ALLISON HUNT

1935 - 2011

David Allison Hunt, 76, of Rutherfordton, N.C., rejoined our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ quietly and surrounded by family on Sunday afternoon, May 8, 2011, at his home in Rutherfordton. A native of DeKalb, Ill., he was a son of the late Horace Wright and Dorothy Rachel Allison Eastburn Hunt.
He was a retired owner/operator for McDonald's franchise restaurants of Rutherford County. He was a graduate of DeKalb High School, DeKalb, class of 1954, and served as an Army medic in the 311th Army Engineers in Germany. He was an entrepreneurial businessman with ventures over the years including General Sheet Metal, DeKalb Mechanical Contractors, General Excavating, Illinois Tollway System supervisor and McDonald's franchises.
While working in the heating and air/sheet metal industry, he apprenticed as a sheet metal, HVAC worker, continuing on to journeyman, foreman and ultimately, business owner. He served as president of the Rockford area Sheet Metal Contractors Association, and was also president of the Illinois State Roofers and Sheet Metal Contractors Association. He was a life member and Past Master of Masonic Temple 144, DeKalb. He served on the DeKalb County School Board and was active in Boy Scouts, serving as a Cubmaster and Boy Scout Scoutmaster with the Two Rivers Council of Illinois.
Dave served as District Commissioner in the Pee Dee Area Council in South Carolina, and BSA Executive Board Piedmont Council in Rutherford County. He was awarded the Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to youth in 1987, served on the National Boy Scout Jamboree National Staff three times in the Troop Food Group, and fulfilled a lifetime achievement hiking 14 days across Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico in 2000 with son, David, and members of Troop 132, Rutherfordton.
He was an aircraft pilot and a member of the Rutherfordton Airport Authority, serving as chairman from 1998-1999. He was elected to the Rutherfordton Town Council from 1997-1999 and was the Rutherfordton Board Member Water Authority from 1999-2002. With the McDonald's System Franchisee Association, he was the National Operators Advisory Board (NOAB) representative from 1996-1998, National Leadership Council (NLC) in 1999 and also served as Greenville, Spartanburg and Asheville, S.C., Coop president.
He is survived by his wife, Kathryn "Katy" Maercker Hunt of the home; daughter, Nancy (Barry) Lawson of Asheville, N.C.; son, David (Laura) Hunt of Forest City, N.C.; daughter, Diane (Pete) Dickerson of Rutherfordton; his three brothers, Lee Eastburn of Cave Creek, Ariz., Clifford (Sarah) Hunt of Oak Park and Horace (Nicki) Hunt of South Elgin; one sister, Susan Gordon of Chicago; and seven grandchildren, Brady Diane Lawson, Benjamin Lawson, Abraham Lawson, Roland Hunt, Sterling Hunt, Cape Dickerson and Silas Dickerson.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Marion Hadick and Martha Johnson.
The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at Crowe's Mortuary in Rutherfordton. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 13, at St. Francis Episcopal Church with the Rev. Laura Myhr officiating.
Online condolences can be made at www.CroweMortuary.com.